*my friend rishi
thinking on this valentine's day abt how i wish for tenderness for us all, remembering who i've felt tenderness from and tenderly toward in turn <3
& milan kundera - “Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child.”
& bell hooks - "There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love."
& hala alyan - "Empathic imagination is what allows you to understand that the leap between your child and someone else's is no leap at all. More than a million people are being bombed in a neighborhood they were ordered to evacuate to. A little girl starved to death among her decomposing relatives, while nearby the emergency workers sent to rescue her were charred to bits."
thinking also about how our tenderness can be a source of fierceness in taking actions to, as rasha abdulhadi has said, throw sands on the gears of genocide, to refuse the illusion of inevitability propped up by the machinery of war
event calendars
-arab resource and organizing center
-jewish voice for peace
-ifnotnow
- samidoun (EU)
orgs links to get plugged into about actions & advocacy
- palestinian youth movement (linktree, instagram, twitter, facebook)
- arab resource and organizing center (linktree, instagram, twitter, facebook)
- jewish voice for peace (linkinbio, instagram, twitter, facebook)
- ifnotnow (linktree, instagram, twitter, facebook)
tenderness, a human right, and #ceasefirenow as a bare minimum. free palestine.